Box-opener.



A. I. PLATT.

BOXOPENERL grruoumx mum JULY 15, 1913.

1,093,946, Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR [M BY A TTORNEY i STA'I ]31 S PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR I. PLATT, OF BRIDGEPOB IT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THEBRIDGE'PORT HARDWARE MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, OF BRIDGEPORT,CONNECTICUT, A.

CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BOX-OPENER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Application filed July 15, 1913. Serial No. 779,147.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR I. PLA'rr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, haveinvented an Improvement in Box-Openers, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its object to pro- -vide a strong and inexpensivepocket implement forged from a bar which shall be adapted for use as ahammer and a claw and which shall be provided near the claw end thereofwith an inwardly and forwardly extending notch so shaped as to form abackwardly projecting horn especially adapted for use in tearing off theretaining bands of metal or wood which are used, to insure safety of thecontents, upon large packing cases, and upon smaller boxes and cases aswell where the contents are heavy orvaluable, and the greatest degree ofstrength and safety readily attainable is required.

With this and other objects in view I have devised the novel box openerwhich I will now describe, referring to the accompanying drawing forminga part of this specification and using reference characters to indicatethe several parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective illustrating the use of my novel implement intearing a retaining band from a box; Fig. 2 a plan view of the implementon an enlarged scale, and Fig. 3 is an edge view thereof.

While my novel implement is adapted for miscellaneous uses requiring ahammer and a claw it is especially designed for use in receiving andshipping rooms and places generally where boxes and packing cases areopened and closed, the requirements being for an implement that can beconveniently carried in the hip pocket and readily inserted and removedwithout catching upon the garment and which in addition to comprising ahammer and a claw for extracting nails shall combine therewith a hornespecially adapted for engaging and tearing off the retaining bands uponboxes and packing cases, which cannot be conveniently accomplished by anordinary nail extracting claw.

10 denotes the shank of my novel implement, 11 a double-headed hammerwhich is forged at one end of the shank at right shaped openingindicated by 13, the claw being preferably curved slightly, as shown inFig. 3.

l4 denotes a backwardly projecting horn for loosening and tearing offthe retaining bands of boxes and packing cases, as shown in Fig. 1. Thishorn is formed by forging a forwardly extending V-shaped notch in theedge of the shank back of the claw, said notch being beveled from theupper face of the shank to the lower face thereof, and forging thehornwith a blunt point in alinement with the lower face of the shank andin substantial alinement with the edge of the shank to adapt it to catchunder and tear off the retaining band, which may'first be slightlyloosened if necessary by the claw. The notch is necessary in order toenable the horn to be passed under the retaining band as it is requiredthat the horn project but slightly from the line of the side of theimplement, so that it will not catch upon the pocket of the user ininserting and renioving it.

In using the horn to remove a retaining band the horn is drawn undertheband from the inner side and the side of the claw end. ofthe-implement is used as a fulcrum in prying off the band, as is clearlyshown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

An implement of the character described comprisin a shank having in itsotherwise substantia ly continuous edge a forwardly inclined notchforming at its forward side an acute angle with said edge and providinga rearwardly inclined horn beveled on its inner side toward one face ofthe shank and ARTHUR I. PLATT.

Witnesses GUsTAv BECKER, J r., JOHN E. VIo'r.

